Who is Prophet?
God has chosen men in every nation to deliver the divine message. Such chosen men are called as prophets of God. Every prophet call people to Believe in One and Only God, Believe in Him(i.e. Messenger),Believe in Last Judgment (i.e. Life After Death),Obey God’s law and do good works.
Every Prophet promises Paradise to those who believe in one God and his messenger.
Christianity and Islam are the world’s largest religions. Both faiths claim to have a prophet that received God’s word from the same angel, the Gabriel. The common source of the Archangel Gabriel makes for an ideal comparison between the two faiths.
Christianity, Islam and Judaism
Christianity, Islam and Judaism
Muslim consider the prophets of Judaism(Moses) and Christianity(Jesus) to be true messengers of God, but hold Muhammad to be the last messenger. Muslim do not worship their prophet, unlike the Christian i.e. all messengers are created human beings, who have none of the divine qualities of God.
Allah is a Arabic word which simply mean ‘God’. The word Allah appears throughout Arabic translations of the Bible. All Prophets from Prophet Adam(First man in this world) to Last Prophet Muhammad delivers same message that “There is only one GOD” (i.e. God has no partners or helpers nor does He share His Lordship with any of His creations). Throughout history, all the prophets of God had been calling people to believe in life after death. Indeed, the necessity of life after death ought to be evident to the moral consciousness of man. Without an Afterlife, the very belief in God becomes, one may say, irrelevant. Muslim Worship the one God whom Jesus, Moses, Abraham and Muhammad worshipped.
The scriptures such as Torah, Bible and Quran that are specific to these religions were indeed all sent down by one God. The Qur’an is the final revelation from God, and will remain until the Day of Judgment. Although the Torah(Jews) and the Bible(Christians) were true scriptures at the time they were revealed, but now they have lost the quality of their authenticity. Bible we have today is not the original scriptures that were revealed by God. It underwent alterations, additions, and omissions… (Source: answering-christianity.com/101_bible_contradictions.htm )
One God-In the Teachings of Bible
“‘Of all the commandments, which is the most important?’ ‘The most important one,’ answered Jesus, ‘is this: Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ Then the scribe answered Jesus, `Teacher, what you say is right. There is one God. There are no other gods. Jesus saw that the scribe was wise. So he said to him, `You are not far from the kingdom of God. After that everyone feared to ask him any more questions” (Mark 12:28-34)
One God-In the Teachings of Quran
“Say(Muhammad): He is God, The One and Only.
God, the Eternal, Absolute.
He begets not, nor is He begotten.
And there is none like unto Him“ [Quran 112:1-4]
Islam and Judaism both consider the Christian doctrine of the trinity and the belief of Jesus being God as explicitly against the tenets of Monotheism (One God). Idolatry, worshiping graven images, is likewise forbidden in both religions.
Previous Messengers were only sent for their people and nation and their complete message was meant only for a particular time period. Moses was only sent for the Jews. Jesus sent only for the Jews i.e. lost sheep of Israel. Prophet Muhammad is the Last and Final Messenger for the Whole of Mankind. Neither Muhammad nor Jesus came to change the basic doctrine of the belief in one God, brought by earlier prophets, but rather to confirm and renew it.
Prophet Muhammad is not the Founder of Islam, he is one of the Almighty Prophet among all Prophets, The Islam Born Since First man, Prophet Adam Step his Foot on Earth.
Hinduism and Islam
Hinduism is commonly perceived as a polytheistic religion. Indeed, most Hindus would attest to this, by professing belief in multiple Gods. While some Hindus believe in the existence of three gods, some believe in thousands of gods, and some others in 330 million Gods. However, learned Hindus, who are well versed in their scriptures, insist that a Hindu should believe in and worship only God
“He is one and only without a second” [ chandyoga Upanishad 6:2:1]
“Of him there are neither Parents nor Lord” [ svetasavatara Upanishad 6,9]
“There is no image of Him.” [Yajurveda 32:3]
“His form is not to be seen; no one sees Him with the eye.” [Svetasvatara Upanishad 4:20]
The common Hindu, therefore, considers everything as God. He considers the trees as God, the sun as God, the Cow as God, the snake as God and even human beings as manifestations of God!
Islam, on the contrary, exhorts man to consider himself and his surroundings as examples of Divine Creation rather than as divinity itself. In other words the Muslims believe that everything belongs to God. The trees belong to God, the sun belongs to God, the Cow belongs to God, the snake belongs to God, the human beings belong to God and everything in this universe belongs to God.
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